#wise man

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool. ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

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No wise man ever wished to be younger. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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A wise man turns chance into good fortune. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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